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Images from three SFF holiday specials: ALF's Special Christmas, George and the Christmas Star, and Invader Zim's "The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever"
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Spend Christmas Among the Stars in Six Intergalactic Holiday Specials

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The Memorable Books We’ve Received as Gifts

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Illustration of Santa Claus from Japanese children's magazine Kodomo no tomo (1914)
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The Real Magic of Santa Claus

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Jack Skellington holds a book titled "The Scientific Method" in a scene from The Nightmare Before Christmas
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How Should We Define The Nightmare Before Christmas?

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Close-up photo of a pile of wrapped gift boxes
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The Art of Buying Books for Other People

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Tick sits on Santa's lap in "The Tick Loves Santa!" (1994).
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The Tick Had the Perfect Action-Packed Take on Santa 30 Years Before Red One

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Hot Frosty. Dustin Milligan as Jack Snowman sans shirt
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Hot Frosty

Are We Gonna Talk About the Deeply Dystopian World of Hot Frosty?

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Close-ups of actors in three movies: Jennifer Connelly in Labyrinth; Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Ian McKellen in THe Lord of the Rings
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The Non-Holiday Classics We Watch Over the Holidays

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Cozy Up With These 22 Chilly Winter Reads

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How the Holidays Became Haunted

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Oddball Holiday Classics to Seek Out This Season

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23 of the Best (and Worst) Creatures in the Christmas Canon

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"It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”

Frank Herbert, Dune

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